Example sentences of "have [vb pp] from a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is estimated that they have fallen from a peak of £62 a square foot to £38 . |
| 2 | The purpose of making notes is primarily to set out , in a shortened but logical form , information that you have gathered from a variety of sources on a particular topic so that it can be used for revision purposes and as an aid to memory . |
| 3 | We are passing on a letter we have received from a firm of accountants that is acting for the BSM , asking you to contact them . |
| 4 | Loans have come from a variety of country houses such as Nostell Priory , Goodwood , Saltram , Ickworth and Burghley House and are fairly evenly divided between portraits and classical mythology ; frequently both are combined . |
| 5 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 6 | Trafalgar shares have slumped from a peak of £3.96 three years ago as the recession has bitten into profits . |
| 7 | Wheway 's shares have slumped from a high of 140p in 1989 to just 7.5p at present . |
| 8 | He admitted that Unisys 's sales have suffered from a lack of confidence among customers about its financial situation . |
| 9 | He supports the curtailment , apparently , of green-form advice , which I believe is largely motivated by the embarrassment which the Government have suffered from a number of very successful cases that have been mounted against Home Office decisions by law centres and legal aid practices throughout the country . |
| 10 | In what has been described , we have moved from a model of a community in which neighbourly acts were performed within clearly defined limits , with reciprocal benefits looming large , to a model in which , so far as very old people are concerned , such acts are more often the product of altruism ( remembering that this does not deny gratification to the giver ) and of a more systematic attempt to offer and channel care appropriately . |
| 11 | I have selected from a wealth of alternatives : |
| 12 | Base rates have crashed from a peak of 15% in 1989 to 7% . |
| 13 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 14 | The one thing I have bought from a tin of biscuits . |
| 15 | The public sector and its workers have benefited from a series of pre-election sweeteners , but Major 's one ‘ big idea ’ , the Citizen 's Charter , has offered diminishing returns for the Tories from its inception . |
| 16 | Atmospheric methane concentrations have increased from a level of 0.8 ppm about 150 years ago to around 1.7 by 1990 ( Khalil and Rasmussen , 1987 ; UN IPCC , 1990a ) as cattle populations have risen , rice cultivation has expanded , fossil fuels have been extracted in growing amounts and forests burned . |
| 17 | The publication of intimate details of private lives without the slightest public interest justification can not be the subject of legal action , unless they have stemmed from a breach of confidence or some other legal wrong . |
| 18 | Eldorado 's ratings have bounced from a low of 2.6 million to 8 million . |